Denis Akhalashvili
Rating: 9,6|Votes: 30
Now he was looking at the dome with a cross, glittering in the sun, and waiting for death to come. But it was slow in coming, though a tenfold heroin overdose should have caused a quick death. Meanwhile, death was still not going to take him, and he was gazing down at the golden cross on the church dome and couldn’t tear himself away from the view.
Elena Esaulova, Elena Zyryanova
Rating: 9,8|Votes: 32
In Protestantism I felt far less comfortable than here. I was alone there, but in Orthodoxy the Lord, the Virgin Mary and saints help me bear my cross.
Priest Valery Dukhanin
Rating: 9,7|Votes: 66
Natalia had no idea what the Jewish woman’s reaction would be, nor did she know what else she could offer to relieve Tabitha’s sufferings. With her simple heart and sincere faith, Natalia wanted to share the thing she held dearest with Tabitha and used the Gospel as the source of her personal spiritual consolation.
Rating: 9,7|Votes: 37
It is crystal clear that our society is infected with a shortage of love. I think that our contemporaries, choked up in the general atmosphere of enmity (because of the lack of love), above all expect love from the Church. That is why above all we should tell those on the outside that God is love.
Fr. James Guirguis
Rating: 10|Votes: 20
This is only the beginning. Let this not be another day in your life, but the day that you recommit yourselves to live only for Jesus Christ and what is profitable for your salvation.
Artem Budenny, Dmitry Nechitaylo
Rating: 9,9|Votes: 17
An artist shows both perfection and imperfection of life in his art. He first needs to experience, feel keenly and comprehend the idea and then convey it, using the arsenal of knowledge and skills.
Maria Perova, Pavel Popov
My path towards art was not a very traditional one. I took up painting rather late in life. I was trying to find myself.
Archpriest Andrei Tkachev
Rating: 9,2|Votes: 37
But now you’ve heard of two whole Germans who came to Rus’ for the Holy Spirit, although it certainly bloweth were it listeth. And both of them took on the very difficult form of Christian asceticism—foolishness for Christ—and achieve sainthood in it. Yes, two! But wait, there is a third.
Priest George Maximov
Rating: 9,7|Votes: 32
In the video below Orthodox Filipinos speak about their conversion to Orthodoxy and how the holy faith has renewed their lives.
Peter Davydov, Olga Gagushicheva
Rating: 9,6|Votes: 26
This talk is about how Olga Gagushicheva, who had been baptized yet was absolutely unenlightened, became a Krishna worshipper and practicing astrologer, why she returned to her paternal home and Christ, and what came of it.
Fr. Lawrence Farley
Rating: 6,9|Votes: 21
We should consider the faith and life of a group taken as a whole and not simply their stated understanding of baptism or their confession of the Trinity.
Rating: 9,5|Votes: 12
Twelve women from Philippine received Friday, August 31, 2018, the Mystery of Holy Baptism at the St Andrew and All Russian Saints in Episkopeio, Nicosia.
Rating: 6|Votes: 25
The question of how the Orthodox Church should receive converts from other Christian confessions is a large and complicated one, and is sometimes capable of drawing very warm responses—including from some of our Protestant and Roman Catholic brethren who may feel rejected and slighted by talk of conversion from their confessions to that of Orthodoxy.
Hieromonk Seraphim (Rose)
Rating: 9,6|Votes: 51
Of course, you read about this and you say the man must be crazy. But if you look deeply, you see that this is coming from a deep desire to have some kind of happiness on earth.
Rating: 9,3|Votes: 44
Christ tells the Pharisees and Sadducees who came to Him, “Ye can discern the face of the sky,” that is, tell what the weather will be; “but can ye not discern the signs of the times?” In other words, He’s telling them that this has nothing to do with science, or with knowing our place in the world, or anything of the sort.
Sergei Komarov
Rating: 10|Votes: 17
The kingdom of God is as if a man should scatter seed on the ground, and should sleep by night and rise by day, and the seed should sprout and grow, he himself does not know how (Mark 4:26–27).
Tatiana Veselkina
Rating: 8,5|Votes: 38
The ROCOR parish of St. Joseph the Betrothed follows the form of worship called the Western Rite, as it was before the Great Schism of 1054 in the One, Catholic and Apostolic Church.
Nun Theophania
Rating: 9,8|Votes: 102
The convent’s distinctive feature is that its nuns are not only from Greece, but also natives of other countries—Austria, Australia, the UK, Armenia, Germany, Cyprus, Lebanon, Russia, the USA, Estonia, and Japan; and they hold some parts of the services in their native languages.
Schema-Archimandrite Gabriel Bunge, Vasily Tsuper
Rating: 9,8|Votes: 60
Monasticism does not exist for any specific purposes related to this world. To quote an anonymous author of The History of Egyptian Monks (fourth century), “From the very beginning, the purpose of monasticism was following Christ in the desert, singing hymns and psalms and waiting for our Lord to come.” This seeming “uselessness” makes monasticism free from any services within the Church structure.
Fr. Ted Bobosh
Rating: 9,3|Votes: 16
When one reads the spiritual lessons from the Fathers and Mothers of our Church, one realizes that they did not hold to a “one-size-fits-all” mentality when it came to spiritual discipline.
